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Verses and Votes: an evening of Poetry and Politics

Verses & Votes: An Evening of Politics & Poetrywith Maria Garcia Teutsch and Suzanne Gavenus, Candidate for Democratic NC House District 856:30 PMHomeplace Beer Co. 3rd Floor Mezzanine321 Main StreetBurnsville, NC Sponsored by Plott Hound Books in honor of National Poetry Month Two best friends. Two callings. Join us for a lively and thoughtful evening…

Profiles in Poetics, Interview with Women’s Quarterly Conversation

My interview with Jillian Mukavetz for Women’s Quarterly Conversation can be found HERE

The Blue Whale of Madness cinepoem

In The Blue Whale of Madness the Mermaid embraces the round, alluring, hair like dark water, scales glittering like a lure, archetype, while undercutting the romance with danger (“you’ll follow me… feel the crack of your bones”). The mythic seduction here is not passive but weaponized, binding beauty to power and power to risk. This…

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards–a book of poems

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards, published by Bottlecap Press, is a collection that can be understood as a cartography of identity—mapping emotional, cultural, familial, and bodily terrains. The use of Lotería cards is more than decorative—it offers a mythopoetic framework that grounds intimate, raw stories in universal symbols.

Analysis of Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

The Sacrament of the Beans

Under my grandma’s collectionof salt-and-pepper shakers

“Pentimento”-Magdalena Magazine

I am honored to be included in Michelle Magdalena’s Magazine, Magdalena which features my poems, “The Swallows of America,” and “Pentimento.”

The Revolution Will Have its Sky

Written and Directed by: Maria Garcia Teutsch–a poem in one act

What She Saw in The Loteria Cards-Poetic Ritual Theatre in One Act

Maria Garcia Teutsch’s multi-media journey, What She Saw in the Loteria Cards, which she also directs and performs in, makes quite the feat unpacking themes of death, love and memory in a most unique way. The piece is a multi-dimensional ritual tapping into the power of imagery, icons (Ginsberg), myth, poetry and performance and like…

God Business/ L ’Affaire de Dieu

God Business I put my sock in my godshoe